The Arabian Nights Entertainments

by Andrew Lang

The Arabian Nights Entertainments,

Selected and Edited

by

Andrew Lang

after the edition of
Longmans, Green and Co, 1918 (1898)

Contents

[Preface] [The Arabian Nights] [The Story of the Merchant and the Genius] [The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind] [The Story of the Second Old Man, and of the Two Black Dogs] [The Story of the Fisherman] [The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban] [The Story of the Husband and the Parrot] [The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished] [The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles] [The Story of the Three Calenders, Sons of Kings, and of Five Ladies of Bagdad] [The Story of the First Calender, Son of a King] [The Story of the Second Calender, Son of a King] [The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied] [The Story of the Third Calender, Son of a King]
[The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor] [First Voyage] [Second Voyage] [Third Voyage] [Fourth Voyage] [Fifth Voyage] [Sixth Voyage] [Seventh and Last Voyage]
[The Little Hunchback] [The Story of the Barber's Fifth Brother] [The Story of the Barber's Sixth Brother] [The Adventures of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura] [Noureddin and the Fair Persian] [Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp] [The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, Caliph of Bagdad] [The Story of the Blind Baba-Abdalla] [The Story of Sidi-Nouman] [The Story of Ali Colia, Merchant of Bagdad] [The Enchanted Horse] [The Story of Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister]

Preface

The stories in the Fairy Books have generally been such as old women in country places tell to their grandchildren. Nobody knows how old they are, or who told them first. The children of Ham, Shem and Japhet may have listened to them in the Ark, on wet days. Hector's little boy may have heard them in Troy Town, for it is certain that Homer knew them, and that some of them were written down in Egypt about the time of Moses.